. Stamp-collector's magazine. ther threepenny we have ever been ableto procure. The penny and fivepenny, originally issuedon toned paper without watermark, nowappear on a thinner paper, showing thepattern all through, and greatly differingin colour from the former. [Tins appliesto the fivepenny only: the colour of theother and texture of its paper having al-ways been unvarying: we have receivedthem since the apparition of the new issue,and they seem fac-similes of the originals]. The vermilion and lake series of the other stamps (of which latter no eightpennyever came out) also bear no waterma
. Stamp-collector's magazine. ther threepenny we have ever been ableto procure. The penny and fivepenny, originally issuedon toned paper without watermark, nowappear on a thinner paper, showing thepattern all through, and greatly differingin colour from the former. [Tins appliesto the fivepenny only: the colour of theother and texture of its paper having al-ways been unvarying: we have receivedthem since the apparition of the new issue,and they seem fac-similes of the originals]. The vermilion and lake series of the other stamps (of which latter no eightpennyever came out) also bear no watermark. [None of the superseded series were per-forated. The handsome current set havethis improvement; but, like their prede-cessors, are unwatermarked]. United States of America.—No stampof this country bears a watermark, andall are on white paper. But is not theremarkable perfection of the design thegreatest obstacle to the imitation of thesestamps ? The American envelopes are fabricatedon a paper watermarked as follows: the. capital letters p. o. d. are on one line;below them are the letters u. s. Thesame inscription is reproduced at smallintervals in an oblique line as far as theend of the paper. A pair of oblique linespass, one through the letters P. and u.,and the other through the letter D. ofall the successive inscriptions. Two morediagonal lines separate the row of lettersjust described from another row abso-lutely identical, and so on. Out of suchpaper is the envelope cut, and it maybe readily imagined how the chances ofcutting mutilate the inscription in variousways. This watermark is found both onwhite and buff paper. The letters u. United States; and p. o. i\, PostOffice Department. We shall signalize,moreover, in the interior of the 1 and3 c. envelope, representing 4 cents, a trioof black bands typographed, below andacross which we read pat. NOV. 1855. Theseare so arranged as to form lines showingthrough the face of the envelope, on whichto write the address
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